22 Celebrity Couples Who Pulled Off Secret Weddings

These stars all managed to tie the knot away from the prying eyes of the paparazzi.

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Julia Stiles and Preston J. Cook

Actress Julia Stiles and her fiancé Preston J. Cook — currently expecting their first child — tied the knot in a secret ceremony over Labor Day weekend, she confirmed in an Instagram post September 26. "Who doesn't love a shotgun wedding? 😉✨" Stiles captioned the photo.

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Hannah Simone and Jesse Giddings

The New Girl star has been very private about her relationship and personal life. But sources confirmed that Simone and Giddings privately married in "an intimate wedding ceremony" back in July 2016 — effectively having kept their marriage a secret for an impressive 9 months. On top of that, sources also confirmed that the two are currently expecting their first child.

During a mid-March 2017 appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Sadoski shared the news that he and Seyfried (who is pregnant with their first child) had secretly eloped the previous weekend, 6 months after announcing their engagement. "We just took off into the country with an officiant and just the two of us, and we did our thing," the former Newsroom actor said.

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Alison Brie and Dave Franco

The actors, who have been dating since 2012 and got engaged in 2015, secretly married in 2017. Their reps confirmed to People that a wedding did take place, though no details have been released about the where, when, or number of guests.

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Ilana Glazer and David Rooklin

The Broad City comedienne – who has a role in the upcoming star-studded comedy Rough Night – and her longtime boyfriend reportedly tied the knot, though neither officially announced it. News of their secret marriage surfaced when several of their friends (including fellow comedian Phoebe Robinson) posted on Instagram congratulating the two. A source told Metro that the wedding took place at City Hall in late February 2017. Glazer herself later confirmed the news via Instagram.

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Allison Williams and Ricky Van Veen

Here's one way to make sure you're wedding ceremony goes unnoticed: hold it at a ranch in Wyoming, as the Girls actress and College Humor founder did in 2015.

The Green Lantern co-stars opted for a private ceremony with just 35 guests in South Carolina in 2012. They've since been pretty great at hiding their kid from the spotlight as well (with a notable exception).

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Busy Philipps and Marc Silverstein

The wedding of actress Philipps and writer-producer Silverstein was a surprise even to the guests. "Marc & I invited our friends to what they thought was my surprise birthday party. When I showed up, everyone yelled surprise and Marc & I yelled it right back- since they had ACTUALLY been invited to our wedding. It was single handedly the most magical and fun day of my life," she wrote on Instagram for a recent anniversary.

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Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz

The super low-key couple got engaged and then married in 2015 within a few months of starting to date. They are still private, minus the occasional gushing. "Nothing matters now that I have my husband," Diaz has said.

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen

The terribly attractive pair held two wedding ceremonies in 2009, in southern California and Costa Rica, but both were easy to hide thanks to their tiny guest lists: less than 30 people came to each.

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Sascha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher

After a six-year engagement, the jokesters said their vows in front of just six guests in Paris in 2016.

With all the rabid attention around her personal life, it's no surprise that Aniston would choose a little deception for her wedding to Theroux: Guests thought they were attending a birthday party at their California home in 2015 only to find themselves at a wedding.

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Jessica Alba and Cash Warren

In a very un-Hollywood moment, Alba and Warren exchanged vows in a courthouse in 2008.

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Nnamdi Asomugha and Kerry Washington

The private pair rarely even walk a red carpet together, so their walk down the aisle was even more covert — they flew guests on a private plane to a friend's house for their ceremony in 2013.

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Leighton Meester and Adam Brody

It's likely because of the fan frenzy around their coupledom — the stars of teen cult shows Gossip Girl and The OC together?! — that the actors decided to tie the knot in a private 2014 ceremony.

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Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell

They famously declared that they wouldn't get married until the Defense of Marriage Act was struck down, and once it was Bell publicly proposed on Twitter to fellow actor Shepard. The official ceremony was a little more chill: at a courthouse in 2013, which they say cost $142 total.

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